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Stephen Downes

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Arguing that the standards for web services should be royalty free, Tim Berners-Lee makes a point that should be obvious to all (and yet, somehow, is not): "There is a common good in making an interoperable specification," he said. "The whole explosion of the Web would not have happened if it had not been open and completely patent and royalty free."

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